Dover Saddlery Announces New Store Opening in North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Tuesday November 25, 10:25 am ET
LITTLETON, MA--(MARKET WIRE)--Nov 25, 2008 -- Dover Saddlery Retail, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Dover Saddlery (NasdaqCM:DOVR - News), today announced plans to open a new store in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, in February 2009.
The new Dover Saddlery store will be conveniently located on Ten Rod Road, just off Route 4, with ample parking for horse trailers. Horse owners, riders and trainers based in Rhode Island and Connecticut will have a Dover Saddlery store providing quality English tack and riding apparel within very easy driving distance.
The interior of the newly refurbished store will evoke the feeling of a premium barn and will offer the ideal backdrop to display a wide selection of saddles, tack, riding apparel and horse care supplies. All Dover Saddlery retail employees are equestrians and trained to offer the highest level of customer service, including a measurement service for custom boots and coats as well as taking monogramming and engraving orders.
Chesley Chmura, Customer Service Manager, commented, "Many Dover Saddlery employees, myself included, live in Rhode Island and are active members of the equestrian community there. We look forward to serving horse owners and riders from Rhode Island and Connecticut at our new store in North Kingstown."
The opening of this store will bring the total number of Dover Saddlery stores to twelve. Details of the Grand Opening, directions and hours will be announced on the Dover Saddlery website at DoverSaddlery.com.
About Dover Saddlery, Inc.
Dover Saddlery, Inc. (NasdaqCM:DOVR - News) is the leading multichannel retailer of equestrian products in the United States. Founded in 1975 in Wellesley, Massachusetts, by United States Equestrian team members, Dover Saddlery has grown to become The Source® for equestrian products. Dover offers a broad and distinctive selection of competitively priced, brand-name products for horse and rider through catalogs, the Internet and company-owned retail stores. Dover Saddlery, Inc. serves the English rider and through Smith Brothers, the Western rider. The Source®, Dover Saddlery® and Smith Brothers® are registered marks of Dover Saddlery: For more information, please call 1-978-952-8062 or visit www. DoverSaddlery.com.
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ACADIA NAT’L PARK — The Wildwood Stables will be under new management beginning next year.
The National Park Service has awarded a 10-year contract to Carriages of Acadia, effective January 2009.
The company, which is located in Houlton, is headed by president and CEO Michael Carpenter. “I am absolutely thrilled to have been selected for this contract, and I look forward to taking an already excellent program at Wildwood and improving it,” Mr. Carpenter said in a press release.
“My goal is to make the various services at Wildwood Stables a centerpiece of the park experience to enhance the memories of Acadia for its many visitors.”
Although Mr. Carpenter is a practicing attorney and the former attorney general of Maine, he is committed to operating the franchise with his daughter and not being an “absentee landlord,” he said in a telephone interview this week.
Mr. Carpenter’s was one of four proposals submitted to the park and reviewed by a panel in May 2008; the recommendation of the review panel was then vetted by the park service’s legal staff and a final decision made by the regional director, Dennis Reidenbach.
In commenting on the decision, Mr. Reidenbach said, “The National Park Service works with concessionaires to offer services to the public to enhance their experiences in the park. The recent competition for concession service at Wildwood Stables in Acadia allowed us to analyze several options, and we are looking forward to working with Carriages of Acadia to provide equestrian services in the park at Wildwood Stables.”
Ed Winterberg who not only has operated the horse and livery concession at Wildwood Stables in Acadia since 1986 but also submitted a proposal, said on Tuesday that he had no comment on either the decision or on what action, if any, he might take.
In an exchange of e-mails in late September between Wildwood’s operations manager Leslie Peters and the park’s concession officer Liz Weston, Mr. Peters said that once an award decision is publicly announced, any bidder could initiate a legal appeal. As of press time, no one at Acadia or in the regional office in Philadelphia where the decision was announced, was aware of any challenge or appeal of the decision.
Mr. Carpenter said in the telephone interview that he needs “to get his feet on the ground” before he becomes more explicit about changes he might implement, although he did reiterate that he will build on the current program which he described as “lovely.”
Since he was a “tiny boy,” Mr. Carpenter has been around horses. Growing up, he worked on his father’s draft horse farm and currently owns a commercial stable just north of Houlton.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Providence Journal
4 injured when horse-drawn carriage tips over
PORTSMOUTH — Christina West, 63, of Lawton Brook Lane, was in fair condition yesterday in Rhode Island Hospital, four days after the horse-drawn carriage she was riding in struck a stone wall and tipped over at the Carnegie Abbey sporting club last Friday afternoon.
West’s four companions on the ride told the police that the horses pulling the buggy somehow became spooked.
Marjorie T. Grafton, 59, of Unionville, Pa., the driver, told the police the animals stopped responding to the reins and began galloping, turning a corner off a dirt road into a wooded area and pulling the carriage along with them.
When the buggy struck the wall and tipped over, the horses were still attached to their harnesses, the police said.
When they arrived, the police said, they found West lying in the dirt up against a tree, with another passenger, Terrence Leigh, 29, of West Grove, Pa., applying traction to mitigate West’s injuries.
The horses were removed safely by the staff of Carnegie Abbey, according to a police report.
The police said Portsmouth and Tiverton rescue squads attended to West and two other passengers who had been injured in the accident, Michelle M. Kirby, 49, of Ashurst Drive, Middletown, and Kathleen K. Greenman, 54, of Paradise Avenue, Middletown.
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October 1, 2008
Providence Journal
The Passing of Bill Colburn
William B Colburn -- Foster
 Foster – William B. Colburn, 83, of Pierce Road, died Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at the Alpine Nursing Home in Coventry. He was the beloved husband of Gertrude F. (Schofield) Colburn. Mr. and Mrs. Colburn celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on June 12, 2008.
Born in Providence he was a son of the late Walter B. and Bessie D. (Bedson) Colburn and had lived in Warwick before moving to Foster in 1966. He worked for thirty-four years as a machinist for the Leesona Corporation, Warwick, before retiring in 1978. He was a United States Navy veteran of World War II.
He was a member of the Moswansicut Riding & Driving Club serving as Club Treasurer for thirty years. He was a former director of the Leesona Credit Union and a former secretary of the Potterville Volunteer Fire Department. For forty-two years he and his wife danced with the Friendly Mixers Square Dance Club. For many years he was a member of the Cathedral of St. John, Providence.
Besides his wife he is survived by two sons William G. Colburn of Ashville, NC and Charles R. Colburn of Kissimmee, FL; one brother Robert B. Colburn of Warwick, four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He was the brother of the late Emma Altoff.
A graveside service will be held on Thursday at 11:00 AM in the Rhode Island Veterans Memorial Cemetery, South County Trail, Exeter. Burial with military honors will follow. Donations in his memory may be made to Foster Human Services, 181 Howard Hill Road, Foster, RI 02825 Information and condolences at www.carpenterjenks.com.
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Sixth US state bans double-deck horse transporters
July 28, 2008
Rhode Island has become the sixth US state to ban the use of double-deck trailers transporting horses, no matter what their final destination is.
Each horse is a separate violation in Rhode Island, with the first offence carrying a fine of $US500 and a second offence doubling the fine to $US1000.
The Equine Protection Network (EPN) praised the state's move, pointing to the deaths of 55 horses across three states in a three-year period as evidences of the dangers of carting horses in double-deck transporters:
- September 15, 2004 - Indiana - 21 horses killed in Lawrenceburg, travelling from Minnesota to a Kentucky dealer.
- September 27, 2006 - Missouri - 16 out of 42 killed in Franklin County, travelling from Colorado to slaughter in Illinois.
- October 27, 2007 - Illinois - 17 horses killed in Wadsworth, travelling to a Minnesota auction.
The Illinois accident inspired the new Rhode Island law, which took just 17 days to pass into law.
"How many more horses have to be killed ... before the state legislatures are going to stop wasting taxpayer money and the legislatures' time holding committee hearings on an issue that is not rocket science?" asked EPN's Christine Berry.
She said Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri - all states with an active Farm Bureau - have failed miserably to pass legislation banning what she called unsafe and inhumane trailers.
"This is not rocket science requiring studies to determine whether or not horses can be transported safely and humanely in double deck trailers. If these trailers were safe and humane for horses, the leading commercial horse transport companies would have been using doubles years ago.
"I have yet to read a published study advocating the use of these trailers to the horse industry. I have yet to open a horse magazine trailer issue with a double decker in it, nor have I attended a horse trade show and seen a double decker being offered for sale to the horse industry," says Berry.
"It is about time the Farm Bureau and the State Legislatures start using good old common horse sense."
Berry has advocated for passage of legislation banning doubles for all horses no matter what their final destination since 1996, resulting in the passage of the PA Horse Transport Law of 2001, the strongest law of its kind in the United States and a model for Rhode Island and the recently introduced federal bill, HR 6278.
For three years, Berry investigated the transport of horses in doubles from Pennsylvania to New York, reporting violations to the New York State Police and Pennsylvania State Police, resulting in numerous convictions under the NY's Horse Transport Law and PA's Cruelty Law.
Berry also traveled for two and a half years in horse vans with Triple Crown and Olympic Champions during her employment with a leading horse transportation company.
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Rhode Island Federation of Riding Clubs
(from the Moswansicut Riding & Driving Club Newsletter)
1. RIDOT is continuing rescue training at the Ryan Center at URI. A survey was done with regard to emergency preparedness in New England and the following was found:
a. Massachusetts has the money
b. Connecticut is the most organized
c. Rhode Island is somewhere in between MA & CT
d. Maine has no plan in place
2. An idea has been proposed for the Snake Den Property, which abuts the Dane Farm and Johnston Memorial Park in Johnston, RI, to be developed into a horse park.
3. Upcoming dates: Bazaar (swap meet) 3/30/08, Blessing of the Horses 4/27/08
4. It was also stated that New Englander's should be prepared to absorb any expense after a natural disaster themselves (i.e. hurricane) because by the time a storm of that magnitute comes up the coast, most federal money for disaster relief will have already been spent in more southern states.
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